Pleasant evening at work, for a nice change, I got to hang out with people who like me--well, like me enough to want to talk with me, anyway. Made the night just fly by, and I actually enjoyed myself at work--even made 7 sales...not the best number on tonight's shift, but not shabby.
I like working with my voice--the challenge of using only your voice to convey feelings and persuade people--well, I suck as a salesperson, so not so sure about the persuading part. 
I got invited out to a co-worker's dairy farm, which would be awsome...don't know if anything will come of it, though. Was invited to a model train club's open house--but naturally, I was working tonight, and couldn't go.
Speaking of working, lay-off's temporarily over, and I'm back on regular shift starting tomorrow. My body's going to thing I'm nuts. It's not sure when it should be hungry or sleepy, anymore. 
Been dealing with a migrane all day, which is highly unusual for me. I'm blessed in that I so seldom get headaches...unfortunately, when I do get them, they tend to make up for lost time. I spend a dollar on a candy bar--a dollar that I could ill-afford, but it did seem to help my headache to go away--suspect it was a blood-sugar problem. Now, that hurt--a month ago they were only 80 cents..can't even afford a blinking candy bar..what's the world coming to???
I've a fly in my front room, and it's driving me bonkers!!! Keeps landing on my bare legs (I'm wearing my comfy old soft denim skirt) and flying around my face, and it's too "flighty" for me to swat fast enough at. The building's new welfare residents keep leaving the lids to the dumpster (skip) out in the car park off, and the flies are horrible. I'd be surprised that the city doesn't get at the building manager, but this city isn't overly concerned with rubbish and other quality of life issues. They're more into putting new roundabouts and posh streetlamps and such. You know, all "free" governments are essentially the same, no matter what the country--some are just better or worse than others.
Got home just in time. It was only drizzling slightly when I left work, but now, ten minutes after I've come home, it's raining buckets again. Been raining on and off all day. Not that I mind. I mostly like the rain. There's a thunderstorm rolling in. Very sharp lightning--but thunder's very distant--so it's miles away yet. We're under a flash-flood watch in parts of our area to the south...tropical rain. Seems weird to hear of "tropical weather" in the mountains of northern New York, but, there ya' go. At least I didn't have to walk home in it. I couldn't find my 'brella, so I grabbed my old "Genuinie Crusher" hat.
I love my "Crusher"--pictured below--tho' I've shaped mine into a Fedora, rather than a bucket hat..and mine's navy blue...my old one used to be forest green, back when I was a teenager. I own one of the last "originals" ever made, by the company that first manufactured them..but have since found that a company in Oregon--AMJ Pacific, that sells to Northwestern American woodsmen and women, makes them, now. They're GREAT hats--virtually indestructable..and, they roll up in your pocket or knapsack easily, and are just as easily re-shaped again. I used to waterproof mine--that's their only downfall, is that in a heavy downpour they can get a mite soggy, but waterproofed they are fantastic.
You can tell I love my outdoor gear, can't you? Well, spend as much time as I have, getting soaked to the skin for hours, caught in the mud, having close brushes with frost-bite and hypothemia, and dang, peeople--you'd be in love your favourtie outdoor gear as well, trust me!
